Hold Down

Definition: Hold Down

Hold Down

Verb

1. Keep; "She manages to hold down two jobs".

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Crosswords: Hold Down

We have these to hold down the sound, sir. (Hot Shots!; writing credit: Jim Abrahams; Pat Proft)

I flew choppers and drove tanks, back there, they let me operate million dollar equipment, back here I'm nothing! Nothing! I can't even hold down a job at a car wash! (First Blood; writing credit: David Morrell; Michael Kozoll)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Books

• A Guerrila Manual for the Adult College Student : How to Go to College (Almost) Full Time in Your Spare Time....and Still Have Time to Hold Down a Job, Raise a Family, Pay the Bills and Have Some Fun! (reference)

• Hold Down a Shadow (Ulverscroft General Large Print Series) [LARGE PRINT] (reference)

  (more book examples)

Consumer Goods

• Moisture Master 00129-8 Hold Down Stake (5-pack) (reference)

  (more baby examples; more wireless phone examples; more garden examples; more kitchen examples; more tool examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Albanian

s'e lëshoj, mbaj të nënshtruar. (various references)

Arabic 

‏هزم (bear down, beat, best, checkmate, clobber, defeat, dish, dump, finish, floor, foil, go down, knock off, knock out, lick, outdo, outvote, overcome, overpower, pip, sink, skunk, smash, stop, thrash, vanquish, vote down, whip, wipe out, wipe the floor with smb.), ‏تقهقر (back away, fall back, fall behind, give ground, go on before, lose ground, recede, recession, retire, retreat, retreating, retrograde, retrogression, withdraw). (various references)

Bulgarian 

натискам (depress, jam, press, press down, push down). (various references)

Czech

utlaèovat (oppress, repress), udržet si. (various references)

Danish

låsemøtrik (hold down nut). (various references)

Dutch

klemmoer (hold down nut). (various references)

French

se reculer, maîtriser, battre. (various references)

German

festhalten (adherence, capture, cling, conventionalism, detain, emphasize, held, hold, hold on, hold on to, holding, intern, keep hold of, record, register, retain, to hold down, to hold tight, to retain). (various references)

Greek 

περικόχλιο συγκράτησης (hold down nut). (various references)

Hungarian

lefog (overpower, pin down, to apprehend, to arrest, to clinch, to hold down, to keep down, to nab). (various references)

Italian

dado di serraggio (hold down nut). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

組敷く (to hold down, to pin down, to press down), 組み敷く (to hold down, to pin down, to press down), 組み伏せる (to hold down), 押さえ付ける (to hold down, to pin down, to press down, to repress), 押えつける (to hold down, to pin down, to press down, to repress), 押え付ける (to hold down, to pin down, to press down, to repress), 抑え付ける (to hold down, to pin down, to press down, to repress), 捩じ伏せる (to hold down, to twist one's arm), 捻じ伏せる (to hold down, to twist one's arm), ねじ伏せる (contents, joke material, material, must, ought to, persistent, proof, should, sticky, to have to do, to hold down, to twist one's arm, topping of nigiri sushi). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

おさえつける (to hold down, to pin down, to press down, to repress), ねじふせる (to hold down, to twist one's arm), くみしく (to hold down, to pin down, to press down), くみふせる (to hold down). (various references)

Manx

cummal sheese, cummal ny lhie, croymmey (bend, bow, crouch, double over, double up; obeisance, lean forward, stoop, tip over). (various references)

Pig Latin

oldhay ownday

Portuguese

oprimir (bow, bully, burden, cumber, load, oppress, over the counter, overbear, overlay, overwhelm, pinch, press, weight, whelm, yoke), manter em baixo, gostar de (care, go into, love), conter (bottle, carry, comprise, contain, encompass, encore, hold, imply, include, refrain, restrain, rule, squelch, withhold). (various references)

Russian 

держать в подчинении. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

zauzimati, zadržati (delay, detain, dwell, hold back, impeach, keep, keep back, reserve, restrain, retain, stem, stop, withhold), sprečiti da se podigne. (various references)

Spanish

sujetar (anchor, attach, clamp, clip, fasten, fix, grip, hang onto, hold, keep down, mount, retain, secure, set, set up, to brace, to secure, to stow), subyugar (control, govern, head up, overmaster, overpower, restrain, rule, subjugate), oprimir (actuate, aggrieve, compress, grasp, grind, grind down, keep down, oppress, overburden, press, push, squeeze, suppress, to queeze), mantenerse (hold together, keep, keep up, last, tough), estar a la altura, estar (be, be found, be located, be present, come of, find oneself, hold, keep, lie, remain, stand, stand about, stand around, stay, to be). (various references)

Swedish

undertrycka (inhibit, keep down, keep under, quell, quench, repress, restrain, smother, subdue, subjugate, suppress). (various references)

Thai

ก้มลง. (various references)

Turkish

zaptetmek (bridle, capture, contain, govern, hold back, hold in, keep down, possess oneself of, reave, seize, stifle, subjugate, suppress, swallow), yürütmek (collar, filch, go through with, lift, make away with, Nick, pilfer, prig, prosecute, purloin, pursue, push, scrounge, snaffle, sneak, wage, walk, walk away with, walk off with), ezmek (Bray, comminute, crunch, crush, domineer, grind, knock over, mangle, mash, oppress, overbear, overwhelm, pound, pulverize, quash, run down, run over, scrunch, smash, squash, squeeze, squelch, squish, stamp, stave in, steamroller, stump, swat, trample, trample down, tread, tread under foot, tyrannize, weigh down), elinde tutmak (keep control of, put in hand, put smth. in hand), bastırmak (allay, alleviate, appease, assuage, bear against, beat down, bottle up, Burke, choke, compress, crucify, depress, drown, extinguish, flow, gulp, gulp down, keep down, keep in, keep under, outtalk, overbear, overtake, pocket, push down, put down, quash, quell, quench, repress, restrain, set in, settle, settle in, silence, smother, smother up, squash, squelch, stamp, stifle, strangle, subdue, submerge, suppress, swallow, throttle back, throttle down, weigh, weigh down, whelm, whip), baskılamak (choke, pressure, repress). (various references)

Ukranian 

не давати піднятися, пригнічувати (aggrieve, cast down, deject, depress, downcast, flatten, hold under, oppress, repress, tread down, yoke). (various references)

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

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-4 letters: dhow, dodo, down, hold, hood, howl, loon, lown, nolo, wold, wood, wool.

-5 letters: dol, don, dow, hod, hon, how, loo, low, nod, noh, noo, now, odd, oho, old, ooh, owl, own, who, won, woo.

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